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Derek Carr Reveals His Biggest Regret From Time With the Saints · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: That comes with a lot of expectation and promise and hope.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a return to the playoffs after a five year hiatus,
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  Speaker 1: maybe winning a division which many consider is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a bad division of buy and large Saints have
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  Speaker 1: the NFL with that as the backdrop. Derek Carr goes
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  Speaker 1: on Max Crosby's pot Cast Whi's called the rush with
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  Speaker 1: Max Crosby. Those two, of course, were teammates with the Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: and Crosby asked Derek Carr his one big regret from
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  Speaker 1: his time in New Orleans, And my goodness, there are many,
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  Speaker 1: maybe like the last play he played for the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: deciding he was going to be Superman and fly over
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  Speaker 1: a defender into the sideline, you know, hurting his arm
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  Speaker 1: and never playing again. But no, that's not what he said,
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  Speaker 1: not what happened at the end of his career in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. He actually said one regret is from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of his time in.
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans, I wish man more than anything. When we
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  Speaker 2: first got there, I was so focused on the football
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  Speaker 2: that I didn't really get to the community aspect like
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  Speaker 2: I did with the Raiders that first six months. That's
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  Speaker 2: one thing I look back, man, I wish I did
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  Speaker 2: that sooner. Right. We did some community things, We helped
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  Speaker 2: bless a lot of families and people out there, and
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  Speaker 2: it was beautiful. That's one of the things I was like, Man,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I did that sooner, right. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing I look back on.
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr. You might remember sort of infamously, he talked
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  Speaker 1: about his first meal in New Orleans with Chipotle. That
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  Speaker 1: was back in the spring of twenty twenty three, after
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  Speaker 1: he signed with the Saints. He continues to be a
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  Speaker 1: complicated person at thirty five years old. Derek Carr's not
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  Speaker 1: an old man, but he's a veteran football player who's
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  Speaker 1: been in the public spotlight for a long time. And
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  Speaker 1: it is so interesting when you see people like Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr because the thing I've said about him often I
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  Speaker 1: do believe is true. I believe Derek Carr is genuinely
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  Speaker 1: a good man. I believe that. I believe he is
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  Speaker 1: a good man, husband, father, christian all those things. I
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  Speaker 1: believe those things about Derek Carr. He's innately good and
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  Speaker 1: he wants to do right by others. I believe all
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  Speaker 1: that is true. I also believe Derek Carr so desperately
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  Speaker 1: wants and needs to be liked and needs approval, and
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact, and he struggles to get there,
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  Speaker 1: certainly with a lot of Saints fans and others, in
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  Speaker 1: spite of himself. Really, you know, Derek Carr, you talked
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  Speaker 1: about you're focusing on the football, and when he got
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  Speaker 1: to New Orleans in that that first season with the Saints,
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  Speaker 1: he started all seventeen games and he threw for thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred yards, but a lot of that was stack
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  Speaker 1: compiling late in a really a failed nine to eight season.
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  Speaker 1: That's when we termed him then the Emperor of empty yards.
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  Speaker 1: You might recall it. Do you still have that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Paul, with the camera on yourself, there we go,
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  Speaker 3: the Emperor of empty yards?
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  Speaker 1: Man, how did that throwback feel? Huh? Was that just
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  Speaker 1: like an organic reaction? It was I heard Emperor Emptory
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, where's my kings drawn?
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  Speaker 2: On your feet?
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  Speaker 1: On your feet muso, stand up for the Emperor of
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  Speaker 1: emtr I don't. I don't miss him at all. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: think about it, like that's how we had to entertain
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  Speaker 1: ourselves for those two years, was like playing that drop
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  Speaker 1: because this team was largely and holy irrelevant. Now we
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  Speaker 1: can actually talk about reasons to be optimistic about Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Shuck in the direction. Maybe the honest juxtaposition is just
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  Speaker 1: looking at the way those two have ingratiated themselves when
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  Speaker 1: they got to the city and the state in the region.
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  Speaker 1: So look, I don't want it to be about Derek Carr,
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  Speaker 1: but it's never about Derek Carr again, and he will
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  Speaker 1: be a failed footnote in a Saint's history that has many,
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  Speaker 1: many failures throughout it, with the one sterling shining era
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  Speaker 1: of Drew Brey and Sean Payton outside of really a
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  Speaker 1: history of incompetence. But hopefully we're moving into a new
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  Speaker 1: era that does give people hope that the organization can
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  Speaker 1: conside to grow and develop and build. And I think
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  Speaker 1: looking at the way that Tyler Shuck sort of embraced
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  Speaker 1: the city right away, moved into New Orleans. You'd see
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  Speaker 1: him at restaurants, even doing podcasts and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the culture, riding on Marti girlf floats and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Say it all the time in Louisiana, New Orleans, the
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  Speaker 1: whole state. It is truly a unique place culturally, and
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those places where if you accept us
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  Speaker 1: in our idiosyncrasies, we'll give you the biggest bear hug back. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: it's something Derek Carr never really understood, something that Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Shuck clearly has understood from the beginning, which is why
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  Speaker 1: the popularity is dramatically different.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You still have to go in and that's something Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr didn't do at a high level, something we hope
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Shuck can and that'll start as the Saints are
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  Speaker 1: hitting the practice field for OTAs here up this week